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  Ottawa announces $5.5M for health worker well-being and foreign medical grads

  Ottawa has announced nearly $5.5 million in new funding to address health worker well-being and speed up the application process for international medical graduates who want to work in Canada.

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  'I'm so broken': Grieving family speaks out after B.C. cancer patient awaiting treatment chooses MAID

  A devastated family says long waits for cancer treatment led a beloved father and grandfather to choose medically assisted death 13 days ago.

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  Eating disorder hospitalizations among boys increased 416 per cent over 17 years: Canadian study

  Over the last 17 years, the number of eating disorders among boys has seen a shocking increase, ballooning to 400 per cent higher than the number seen in the early 2000s.

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  A young nurse suffered cardiac arrest while training on the condition. Fellow nurses saved her life

  Andy Hoang was excited about attending a November practice session on how to respond to someone in cardiac arrest. But as things were getting under way at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hoang, 23, started to feel dizzy and nauseated. She felt she needed to sit down.

• Alcohol taxes aren't high enough, says World Health Organization

  The World Health Organization urged governments on Tuesday to increase taxes on alcoholic drinks and impose them on products that are currently exempt, such as wine in some European countries.

• 2 patients die in ER waiting room of hospital on Montreal's South Shore

  An investigation is underway after two people died while waiting in the emergency room at Anna-Laberge Hospital.

• French lawmakers approve bill to ban disposable e-cigarettes to protect youth drawn to their flavours

  France's National Assembly unanimously approved a bill to ban single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes, in an attempt to protect young people drawn to their flavours and mitigate the environmental impacts of the disposable products known as 'puffs.'

• StatCan: 8 million people, 27% of Canadians, have at least 1 disability

  The number of Canadians with at least one disability has doubled in 10 years, a reality that should push governments to help reduce barriers to accessibility, says the head of a human rights organization.

• 6.9 million customers impacted by 23andMe hack: company

  Millions of profiles were accessed by a threat in the 23andMe data breach. Here's what that includes.

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  WATCH | Virus season: 'High risk' of transmission, warns Ontario's top doctor

  As respiratory season gets underway, Ontario's top doctor is urging the public to get vaccinated and warning the province is entering a time of 'high risk of transmission' at a time where COVID-19 and RSV cases are on the rise.

• Health care in Canada could be more like Norway's, with some improvements: study

  Canada is trailing behind other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries when it comes to both the number of physicians relative to the population, and its spending on primary care, according to a new analysis published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

• The U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker's bankruptcy deal, with billions of dollars at stake

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids.